Salonnare vs Sara Salonsoft - which salon software fits you?

Pricing and cost model

Salonnare uses clear, fixed monthly prices with no marketplace commission and no lock-in. You start on the free plan (EUR 0/month, 1 staff member, 50 bookings per month) and scale up to Starter (EUR 29/month, or EUR 348 per year) or Pro (EUR 59/month, EUR 708 per year). No credit card is required for the free plan; Salonnare does charge its own platform fee of 0.5% (min. EUR 0.30) per payment.

According to their pricing page, Sara Salonsoft has four packages: SARA Planner at EUR 9.95 per month (calendar, online booking and notifications, plus EUR 2 per extra staff member), SARA ZZP at EUR 19.95 (1 staff member, adding POS, inventory, marketing, forms and online payments), SARA Teams at EUR 29.95 (2-4 staff) and SARA Pro at EUR 39.95 (5-8 staff). There is a 30-day free trial, no setup fee and you can cancel monthly.^[1] With any salon software, factor in not just the subscription but also transaction fees. The biggest price difference: Salonnare has a permanently free plan, whereas with Sara you move to a paid package after the trial. You see every euro up front on our pricing page.

Built for the Dutch and Belgian market

Both packages are Dutch and suited to salons in the Netherlands and Belgium, and both support iDEAL and Bancontact (Sara via a Mollie connection). Salonnare offers iDEAL via both Stripe Connect and Mollie, plus SumUp and card payments, and a point of sale with Dutch VAT (21% on services, 9% on retail).

For your bookkeeping, Salonnare provides an Auditfile export for the Dutch tax authority, keeping your administration tidy and auditable. All data is hosted on EU servers (Nuremberg, Germany) and processing is GDPR compliant.

Features and ease of use

Salonnare offers online booking through an embeddable widget on your own website and a dedicated booking page with your own logo and branding. Clients pick one or more treatments, instantly see the available time slots per staff member and book in just a few clicks.

You also get client records, inventory management, email marketing and campaigns, recurring memberships (via SEPA/iDEAL), gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees and deposits, forms and intake, and a GDPR Article 9 health-data vault for sensitive health information. Sara Salonsoft also offers a broad package from the ZZP plan upwards: calendar, online booking, POS, inventory, marketing, loyalty, gift cards, digital forms (such as intake, colour and pedicure cards) and online payments via Mollie. What Salonnare adds is a permanently free plan, recurring memberships via SEPA/iDEAL and a GDPR Article 9 health-data vault. See everything on the features page.

Switching to Salonnare

Want to migrate? Salonnare has a CSV import so you bring your existing clients across without retyping anything. You can start straight away on the free plan, set up your booking page and only scale up as your salon grows. The modern interface is quick to learn - new staff and trainees are often productive within an hour.

Dutch-language support during office hours is handled by a Dutch developer, so you get answers from someone who builds the product itself. No lock-in means you can always export your data.

Conclusion: why Salonnare wins

To be fair: Sara Salonsoft is a complete and affordable package, starting at EUR 9.95 per month, with reminders by email, SMS or WhatsApp and a client review system. If you work solo and mainly want low fixed costs, or need SMS or WhatsApp reminders, weigh that in. Salonnare sends reminders by email, and a multi-location dashboard is still being built (coming soon).

For the vast majority of Dutch and Belgian salons, however, the choice lands on Salonnare, for concrete reasons. You start for free (EUR 0) and then pay a low fixed rate (Starter EUR 29, Pro EUR 59) with no marketplace commission on your bookings and no lock-in. You get native iDEAL and Bancontact, a point of sale with Dutch VAT (21%/9%) and an Auditfile export that makes your administration tax-authority-ready. And you get the complete package - online booking with an embeddable widget, POS, inventory, marketing automation, memberships, gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees, deposits and forms - in one, without buying modules on top. On top of that you keep 100% of your own branding and data ownership, on EU servers and GDPR compliant. For a salon that wants to run professionally today and grow tomorrow, that is the decisive choice.

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